Police say they plan to bring additional...

POLICE STRUGGLE.

April 7, 1990

ATLANTA — POLICE STRUGGLE. Police say they plan to bring additional charges against a woman arrested for struggling with police outside her burning home. Pearl Annie Rainey, 38, was arrested outside her home on March 10 as she tried to reach firefighters to tell them her husband was inside the burning house. Police said she was violent and they locked her up for her own safety on a charge of disorderly conduct. The next morning, she discovered her husband of 18 years, Carl, died in the fire. At a hearing Thursday, the jailers agreed to drop the charges against her. But the police department asked for a continuance so additional witnesses could be brought in and indicated that two new simple battery charges may be lodged against Rainey.